All Your Money Are Belong To Jim Delany

(Or, selfishly, MSP, given how easy it would be for me to go to the games.)

A package deal in Indy is much less desirable, though.

Looking at other leagues…

The SEC always plays their football CCG in Atlanta and frequently (but not always) plays their basketball tournament there as well. The ACC has played their football CCG in a few different (empty) locations, and also rotates the basketball tournament, although it often seems to wind up in North Carolina somewhere. I think there’s talk of the football CCG moving to Charlotte in the near-ish future, too. The Big 12 has rotated both the football CCG and basketball tourney around various locales (although mainly Kansas City or Dallas/San Antonio).

is that you’re not doing in Detroit or Cleveland.

that population overall isn’t that important, its who actually consumes the product. I wouldn’t be surprised if 60% of Atlanta’s HH watch the SEC CCG. I would be surprised if 20% of Chicago’s HH (which is still a huge number) watch the Big Ten CCG.

For what it’s worth, the closest B10 equivalent to last year’s SEC title game (1 vs. 2, lots of hype, big-name players, etc.) was probably the 2006 Ohio State-Michigan game. And that game did better numbers than last year’s SEC title game.

(2008) Florida-Alabama also is the highest rated non-bowl game on any network in the metered markets since 2006 (13.7/28 for Ohio State-Michigan on 11/18/06) (via)

(2009) The No. 2 Crimson Tide’s 32-13 win Saturday over the defending national champion and top-ranked Gators received an 11.8 overnight rating and 24 share on CBS. That’s up 13 percent from last year’s 10.4/21 for the same matchup, which also determined a spot in the BCS title game. (via)

The Big Ten also has fairly substantial national appeal. There’s a reason ESPN/ABC are happy to fork over huge dollars to the Big Ten for their TV rights — and it’s because Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State (plus Nebraska now) are significant national TV draws.

I would be shocked if the Big Ten gets close to the ratings of last year’s SEC CCG.

As noted, last year’s SEC title game was a fairly unique confluence of events; we aren’t going to see that happen every year. The Big Ten may not reach those numbers regularly — but neither is the SEC in most years. But given the right match-up, the right amount of hype, the right players, the Big Ten could certainly equal that number — if not top it slightly, if 2006 is any indication. But, again, those sorts of match-ups tend to be more fluke occurrences — you can’t plan on them every single year.

The better question is what a typical Big Ten title game would draw. I don’t see why it would be a surprise if it got the same ratings as last year’s Big XII title game; if you swap Texas for Ohio State, is that really going to diminish the rating? No. And if Nebraska is really successful in the early going of the new Big Ten and faces OSU/PSU/Michigan in the title game, the games will have the added benefit of novelty, which should drive the ratings even higher. A “typical” Big Ten title game that features some combination of PSU, OSU, Michigan, and Nebraska is going to rank at the higher end of the ratings scale and I’d be shocked if it wasn’t one of the highest rated non-bowl games of the year.

Advertisers and people who plan destination events that require disposable income look at more than bodies. It’s what those households can spend and how they travel that factor in to advertising. Yes, SEC teams travel well, I’m talking more about tv ad revenue.

Just like everything else in the Big Ten.

However, you might be spending eternity in purgatory.

that featured ODB and his two bedroom apartment. During that episode it showed him picking up a $50,000 check from his record label. He later went to the bank to deposit said check plus a welfare check he received in the mail. I also remember him showing off a glass jar that had a shit load of cash in it.

I think he later got in trouble for welfare fraud. I guess the $50 grand wasn’t enough. He needed to subsidize his income with the tax payer’s hard earned money.

…“Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”
/storms off